On 06/03/2013 11:48 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
I agree that we want the text on the site to be as accurate as
possible. But I think the further point Matt was making is that it's
not clear what, exactly, is different about Flock yet. As someone who
is not keeping up daily with all Fedora activities these days, if
there's some major differences between Flock and FUDCon beyond the
name and the broader attendance, it's not yet clear to me.
There are many sessions, hackfests, workshops as we've seen in FUDCons
-- all of which is fantastic, and I'm really looking forward to quite
a few of them. But it also seems like there are ideas churning
around, as discussed in previous Fedora conferences such as FUDCon
Lawrence, such as whether the future Fedora of a couple years out
might look different from the Fedora of today.
Are those changes going to be part of the theme of Flock? And are
there special sessions for those sorts of topics?
One of the initial ideas for Flock was that we would try to have a
conference dedicated to something broader than just Fedora... but we
ended up deciding to just focus on Fedora and its ecosystems for now.
For 2013, I think the key changes in Flock are size (bigger than ever
before) and format (a schedule planned and announced in advance).
I hope that people come away from Flock inspired and with projects
either ready to start or already deep into the efforts. I'm very happy
to see a lot of future thinking presentations on a number of topics,
since I firmly believe we need to start planning for our future and
making the changes necessary to keep Fedora vibrant, healthy, useful,
and relevant.
All of that said, at the end of the day:
* Flock is what the Fedora community makes it.
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* Flock is a work in progress. I know we will learn a lot of about it in
this first endeavor, and I'm confident we can fine tune and improve for
the next one.
We never defined a "theme" for this Flock. One of my concerns was that
if we did that, we'd limit the audience and the talks unnecessarily.
That said, we've made it very clear that Flock is a contributor
conference, not a user conference. That doesn't mean it isn't useful to
users, but our clear focus and preference is on contributors (current
and future). If I was to pull a theme out of midair it would be
something like:
Flock: Working together to build the future of Fedora
~tom
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